Jupp Linssen
Linssen has called painting “the result of something that was eliminated or that which still remains,” a statement both matter-of-fact and bold in its claim for painting as the pure residue of process. His grey-tinged palette stays close to the quality of earth and raw substances, as if to underline the elemental and ancient nature of painting. Though their physical make-up is complex, his images are simple and light, giving an airy second life to even the heaviest materials.
Biography
Objects, collages, assemblages, paintings: German artist Jupp Linssen works between categories, building up sensuous surfaces from humble materials more commonly associated with construction than art. In addition to paint, his mixed-media work incorporates old wooden slats, zinc sheets, marble dust, concrete, paper, tin, wax, and plaster. He expresses sensitivity to these materials—the weathered, leached-out wood, the soft marble, the oxidized iron—through his richly textured painting, which, in the tradition of modernists like Duchamp or Kurt Schwitters, intentionally blurs the boundary between what is found and what is artistically produced.
Linssen has called painting “the result of something that was eliminated or that which still remains,” a statement both matter-of-fact and bold in its claim for painting as the pure residue of process. His grey-tinged palette stays close to the quality of earth and raw substances, as if to underline the elemental and ancient nature of painting. Though their physical make-up is complex, his images are simple and light, giving an airy second life to even the heaviest materials. In his latest work, smooth ovals in muted hues float over the picture plane, recalling air bubbles, computer animations, or single-celled organisms. Minimal grids give certain works a loose architectural structure, containing the floating forms in window-like spaces.
Linssen’s art rewards close observation and embraces the idea that if one is open to their possibilities and properties, unassuming materials contain integrity and beauty. Born in Germany in 1957, he studied with renowned minimalist painter and sculptor Joachim Bandeau and lives and works in Aachen and the Netherlands. He has taught at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf and exhibited widely in Germany and abroad, with work included in the collections of the German government, the Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, and the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Museum, Düsseldorf.
Born
1957 Germany
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2015 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany.
2014 Galerie Florian Trampler, Munich, Germany.
2013 Galerie Titus Koch, Gottmadingen, Germany.
Haus Overbach, Jülich-Barmen, Germany.
Summer of Paper, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany.
Aretha Galerie am Rasengarten, Mannheim, Germany.
Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky, Vienna, Austria.
2012 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
ML Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium.
Conny Dietcszhold Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
2011 Kunstverein, Das Damianstor, Bruchsal, Germany.
Forum for Arts and Culture Herzogenrath in the Euregio EV, Herzogenrath, Germany.
Kunstraumno.10, Mönchengladbach, Germany.
2010 Conny Dietcszhold Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky, Vienna, Austria.
Knoll Art, Oberhöfen, Germany.
2009 Galerie Christine Phal, Paris, France.
Gallery Reitz, Cologne, Germany.
2008 Vegetable, Galerie Brockstedt, Berlin, Germany.
Galerie Christine Phal, Paris, France.
2007 Clemens-Josef-Haus, Blankenheim, Germany.
Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky, Vienna, Austria.
Artline Bloemgracht, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Kreiskrankenhaus Emmendingen, Emmendingen, Germany.
2006 Galerie Christine Phal, Paris, France.
2005 Galerie Brockstedt, Berlin, Germany.
Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Galerie Artline, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Galerie Pudelko, Bonn, Germany.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 Art Market San Francisco, Caldwell Snyder Gallery
2018 35th Anniversary Show, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco
2016 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA.
Art Market SF, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2015 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2014 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA.
Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2013 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA.
Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2005 SF International Art Exposition, San Francisco, CA.
2004 SF International Art Exposition, San Francisco, CA.
Awards
1987 Foundation Art of Aachen, Aachen, Germany.
Press
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Selected Artworks
Born
1957 Germany
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2015 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany.
2014 Galerie Florian Trampler, Munich, Germany.
2013 Galerie Titus Koch, Gottmadingen, Germany.
Haus Overbach, Jülich-Barmen, Germany.
Summer of Paper, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany.
Aretha Galerie am Rasengarten, Mannheim, Germany.
Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky, Vienna, Austria.
2012 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
ML Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium.
Conny Dietcszhold Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
2011 Kunstverein, Das Damianstor, Bruchsal, Germany.
Forum for Arts and Culture Herzogenrath in the Euregio EV, Herzogenrath, Germany.
Kunstraumno.10, Mönchengladbach, Germany.
2010 Conny Dietcszhold Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky, Vienna, Austria.
Knoll Art, Oberhöfen, Germany.
2009 Galerie Christine Phal, Paris, France.
Gallery Reitz, Cologne, Germany.
2008 Vegetable, Galerie Brockstedt, Berlin, Germany.
Galerie Christine Phal, Paris, France.
2007 Clemens-Josef-Haus, Blankenheim, Germany.
Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky, Vienna, Austria.
Artline Bloemgracht, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Kreiskrankenhaus Emmendingen, Emmendingen, Germany.
2006 Galerie Christine Phal, Paris, France.
2005 Galerie Brockstedt, Berlin, Germany.
Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Galerie Artline, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Galerie Pudelko, Bonn, Germany.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 Art Market San Francisco, Caldwell Snyder Gallery
2018 35th Anniversary Show, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco
2016 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA.
Art Market SF, Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2015 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2014 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA.
Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2013 Caldwell Snyder Gallery, St. Helena, CA.
Caldwell Snyder Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2005 SF International Art Exposition, San Francisco, CA.
2004 SF International Art Exposition, San Francisco, CA.
Awards
1987 Foundation Art of Aachen, Aachen, Germany.
Objects, collages, assemblages, paintings: German artist Jupp Linssen works between categories, building up sensuous surfaces from humble materials more commonly associated with construction than art. In addition to paint, his mixed-media work incorporates old wooden slats, zinc sheets, marble dust, concrete, paper, tin, wax, and plaster. He expresses sensitivity to these materials—the weathered, leached-out wood, the soft marble, the oxidized iron—through his richly textured painting, which, in the tradition of modernists like Duchamp or Kurt Schwitters, intentionally blurs the boundary between what is found and what is artistically produced.
Linssen has called painting “the result of something that was eliminated or that which still remains,” a statement both matter-of-fact and bold in its claim for painting as the pure residue of process. His grey-tinged palette stays close to the quality of earth and raw substances, as if to underline the elemental and ancient nature of painting. Though their physical make-up is complex, his images are simple and light, giving an airy second life to even the heaviest materials. In his latest work, smooth ovals in muted hues float over the picture plane, recalling air bubbles, computer animations, or single-celled organisms. Minimal grids give certain works a loose architectural structure, containing the floating forms in window-like spaces.
Linssen’s art rewards close observation and embraces the idea that if one is open to their possibilities and properties, unassuming materials contain integrity and beauty. Born in Germany in 1957, he studied with renowned minimalist painter and sculptor Joachim Bandeau and lives and works in Aachen and the Netherlands. He has taught at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf and exhibited widely in Germany and abroad, with work included in the collections of the German government, the Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, and the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Museum, Düsseldorf.
Biography
Press
Linssen has called painting “the result of something that was eliminated or that which still remains,” a statement both matter-of-fact and bold in its claim for painting as the pure residue of process. His grey-tinged palette stays close to the quality of earth and raw substances, as if to underline the elemental and ancient nature of painting. Though their physical make-up is complex, his images are simple and light, giving an airy second life to even the heaviest materials.
Jupp Linssen
With richly textured surfaces resembling fascinating rocks and shells, German artist Jupp Linssen’s mixed-media paintings reference nature and ancient artifacts as well as minimalist art. Linssen has referred to painting as “the result of something that was eliminated or that which still remains,” a philosophy that can be seen in his process, which incorporates materials ranging from marble dust and concrete to paper, plaster, wood, and tin.
Linssen has called painting “the result of something that was eliminated or that which still remains,” a statement both matter-of-fact and bold in its claim for painting as the pure residue of process. His grey-tinged palette stays close to the quality of earth and raw substances, as if to underline the elemental and ancient nature of painting. Though their physical make-up is complex, his images are simple and light, giving an airy second life to even the heaviest materials.